The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 14, 2023

Bulu solves the challenges that arise at the intersection of the ecommerce order page and warehouse logistics, positioning itself as a subscription-first, full-service 3PL. The company offers a range of services including product sourcing, packaging design, order fulfillment, and customer service management.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

One of Square1’s strengths is their use of technology, combined with a dedicated staff, to provide fast and accurate order fulfillment. Overall, Square1’s focus on customer service, combined with their technological capabilities, make them a valuable partner for businesses looking for reliable and efficient 3PL services.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A few years ago I posted Organize, Standardize, Stabilize, Optimize and talked in general terms about the sequence of thinking that gives reliable outcomes. Because if you (as an organization) don’t know how to reliably achieve the standard you are relying on luck. Content, Sequence, Timing to give the desired Outcome.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Prior to starting AscendTMS, Tim co-founded and ran a national 3PL, where he invited Palm Beach Capital LLC to become minority equity shareholder in July, 2009 in order to speed both internal growth and outside acquisitions. The 3PL grew yearly, including during the “great recession”, with load counts being the most robust ever.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

-based, non-asset-based 3PL BlueGrace Logistics, signaled positive momentum for both order volume expectations and revenue expectations, for the second quarter. “While order growth sentiment has moderated slightly, revenue per order is increasing, suggesting higher-value shipments and improved margins.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2024

Under his leadership, Cardinal Health 3PL (Third Party Logistics Services) has grown become an industry leader in third-party logistics, providing warehousing, distribution, and order-to-cash services with products across a wide range of therapeutic categories including unrivaled experience bringing cell and gene therapies to market.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Key Takeaways: A Decade of Loadsmart: A Look Back to Move Forward Felipe Capella and Joe Lynch discus the A Decade of Loadsmart: A Look Back to Move Forward Loadsmart is transforming the logistics landscape by leveraging cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to deliver optimized, reliable, and transparent freight services and solutions.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 7, 2025

ShipMonk complements this seamless experience by providing a frictionless fulfillment process that ensures orders are processed quickly and efficiently. Our integration automatically syncs your TTS orders and inventory with ShipMonk, so you can focus on creating awesome content and building your brand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 16, 2022

The Flowspace platform seamlessly integrates with online stores and sales channels, providing access to a nationwide network that powers fast, reliable, omnichannel fulfillment. This approach provides the best of both worlds, a world-class technology company partnered with a vetted network of fulfillment companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In order to effectively manage risks in the current unstable global marketplaces, many suppliers have a thorough understanding of their own suppliers as well as supply chain bottlenecks that extend past the top tier of suppliers. This dramatically improved financial accuracy and reduced revenue leakage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

High throughput ensures that orders are processed and fulfilled quickly, enabling warehouses to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and customer expectations. Warehouses with high throughput can process orders faster, reduce delays, and ensure timely deliveries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The TMS includes a powerful planning engine that can ingest orders, perform rating calls, and provide optimized transportation plans, all integrated within the system 3G also boasts a proprietary carrier network with extensive coverage across North America, allowing them to offer competitive rates and reliable service.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In warehouse environments, AI-powered robotics and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are revolutionizing order fulfillment processes by handling tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting with unmatched efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In addition, the holiday shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year is 26 days—five days shorter than in 2023—potentially creating additional headaches for online vendors and their delivery partners attempting to fulfill a greater volume of orders in less time.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Their technology optimizes routes, eliminates fragmented systems, and streamlines the entire process, from order placement to final delivery. Their network extends beyond major metropolitan centers, ensuring that everyone, regardless of location, can enjoy the benefits of fast, reliable, and white-glove service for their large purchases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

They remove the need for manual approval, third-party enforcement, and redundant paperwork, making global trade faster, cheaper, and with increased reliability. How Smart Contracts Improve Warehousing Automated Stock Replenishment: Smart contracts automatically trigger new orders when inventory levels fall below a certain threshold.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Validate and Improve Outputs: They can leverage task-specific capabilities, knowledge, and memory to validate and improve their outputs and those of other agents in a system, increasing accuracy and reliability. Improved Accuracy: Validator agents can interact with creator agents to test and improve output quality and reliability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These facilities produce and ship 150,000 order lines per day. Interestingly, the inventory analysis often shows that for slow-moving products, centralizing those SKUs in a central storage location increases reliability despite the increase in lead times. Schneider Electric produces roughly 300,000 finished goods.

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WorkWave

MARCH 13, 2025

Shoppers now demand faster delivery times and greater transparency in their order status, putting pressure on logistics providers to adapt quickly. With RouteManager, companies can create and adjust driver schedules, dispatch drivers with ease and optimize up to 10,000 orders per day.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

when telesales would have captured many of the daily orders from customers. This process would continue until the order cutoff time at around 4 p.m. when we knew it was safe to start planning without too many new orders coming in to disrupt the task. Thats when the orders reached the maximum weight a vehicle could legally carry.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 13, 2025

Manage supply chain An automated and integrated ERP system will enable more accurate and timely procurement, inventory management, logistics and order fulfilment. Integration with supplier data means greater visibility throughout the supply chain that can help to identify bottlenecks that may impact production work and customer orders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For those unsure of what EDI is, it stands for electronic data interchange, is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices. How does EDI contribute to faster order processing and responsiveness in supply chains?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Developing Models : Building and scaling AI models in a manner that ensures they are reliable and understandable. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter. Don’t recalculate the forecast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

They prepare equipment for maintenance, do isolation (disconnect a piece of equipment from the flow of chemicals by closing valves), look at quality or reliability metrics, and do rounds. The user asked to see a piping and instrumentation diagram and then wanted to see the work orders for the vessel in question and the tag for that vessel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With faster, more reliable connectivity, logistics systems are becoming more efficient and automated. The rapid speed and reliability of 5G data transmission are transforming logistics performance, making supply chains more efficient and responsive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Distributed order management solutions can support a ship-from-store strategy. OneStock Retail, based in Paris, has developed distributed order management software that puts gamification at the heart of the solution. Does the credit for an online/ship from store order go to the ecommerce operation? Or the store?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead, it is a combination of solutions that allow an organization to fulfill orders received from multiple channels through a variety of channels. The key component is to fulfill the orders through the most efficient channel for both the consumer and company. This includes the entry of the order, sourcing, payments, and fulfillment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The rise of e-commerce has led to higher volumes of smaller orders that need to be fulfilled and shipped individually. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change. It matches labor, equipment, and other resources accurately with order volumes, in real time. The result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites, for example, can tell one of their shipper clients how long carriers are sitting on average at their warehouses and how this compares to the industry average; Or they can tell a shipper client the appointment reliability at one of that shippers customer’s distribution centers. Today, FourKites can track order visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2024

Medline was the first company in the United States to adopt the AutoStore robotic order fulfillment solution and Medline is the largest AutoStore user in the world. While the speed varies based on what types of orders are being fulfilled, typically they see picking throughput increase 2-4 times. The system has proven to be reliable.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

Reliable processes through reliable methods. On the down side, their orders are still ERP / MRP generated, and they have yet to integrate their internal supply chains with pull. Management leadership. Quality built in. Organizational alignment. Cross-organizational coordination for the customer. Healthy work environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. It also uses artificial intelligence to forecast daily demand for over 400 million products, predicting where in the world they are likely to be ordered.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 13, 2024

And finally, how can the grid work and stay reliable with wind and solar, when the wind does not blow, and the sun does not shine? Grid Reliability There is no choice about this as wind and solar are the main new sources of power over the next 10 years and there are solutions, but cost will be sort out the winners and losers.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Customer order history: Historical customer order volumes and frequencies. Supplier performance: Reliability and on-time delivery rates of each supplier. Order picking, packing, transportation processes, and inventory management practices and procedures are all worthy targets for standardisation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The roles will primarily be in Amazon’s operations network that is responsible for handling products before they are ordered online to final delivery at the customer’s location. Currently, 95 percent of First-Class Mail and more than 95 percent of First-Class packages are moved through the improved, more reliable ground transportation system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 18, 2024

These were autonomous mobile robots where the bots and pickers moved through the warehouse together and optimally engaged in picking multiple e-commerce orders simultaneously. The best solution Fortna tested could only reliably handle three different sizes. This year it is the year of the robot.

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